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Anti-Racism Research Papers

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Farooq, R., Oladokun, O., Al-Mujaini, R., & Addy, C. (2023). Unsettling the ‘master’s house’: A critical account and reflections on developing a clinical psychology anti-racism strategy. Psychotherapy & Politics International, 21(1 & 2), 1-17.

Farooq, R., Appiah, A., Abbas, S., & Addy, C. (2023). Making psychology ‘just’? The challenges and opportunities of delivering human rights based pedagogical & experiential teaching to trainee clinical psychologists. In Clinical Psychology Forum (Vol. 368, p. 23).

Farooq, R., & Appiah, A. (2021). The ‘bag of privilege’: Exploring power through participatory and experiential learning techniques with clinical psychologists in training. Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, 21(3), 12-21.

Upcoming Student Wellbeing Events

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Introduction to mindfulness Workshop:  Aims to introduce mindfulness and how this approach can enhance your well-being. The benefits of mindfulness are explored in a way that can help you identify and incorporate this approach into your life to make a meaningful difference.  

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An introduction to Self-Care Self-Compassion Workshop: What do you do to maintain good health and improve wellbeing? Do you know the importance of regular self-care? This workshop provides the opportunity to do a self-care inventory so you can consider your own self-care routine and where you can make changes. It also provides you with a range of tools and techniques for self-care, and practice these in the session.

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Understanding how to attend stress and anxiety Workshop:  Designed to provide you with an understanding of what anxiety and stress are and how they naturally impact your ability to function, work and cope. You will also be given tools and techniques to help you decrease symptoms.  

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Self-Compassion Workshop: How often are we kind and caring towards others and yet do not give the same compassion to ourselves? Our inner critic wreaks havoc, making us feel dreadful by labelling us as ‘not good enough; lazy; failures; we must work harder’… the list will go on…. This workshop has been designed to help you learn about and practice self-compassion.  

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Anti Racism Spring Updates

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  • Yinka joined as Anti-Racism Lead on the DClinPsy; part of role is to facilitate a reflective space for racially minoritised trainees every 6 weeks.
  • Our most recent workstream meeting was on 12 April 2024.
  • The final mentee workshop was on 21 June 2024 (2-4pm): included a keynote speaker talk on her journey into clinical psychology and coping with setbacks (Dr Denika Campbell-Lee); trainee psychologist talk on “ The tree of life: reflections on our journeys so far, self-care, and coping with setbacks” (Louise Ola and Chelsea Addy); and a facilitated reflective space (Dr Yinka Oladokun and Louise Ola).
  • Plans for next round of mentoring arrange and criteria for mentees established:
    (1) Interest in applying to Newcastle, (2) Belonging to underrepresented racially minoritised group, (3) 2:1 in psychology or 2:2 plus additional post-graduate qualification, (4) Plan to submit application in November 2024.